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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200711-25">
+ <title>MySQL: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in MySQL.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">mysql</product>
+ <announced>2007-11-18</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2007-11-18</revised>
+ <bug>198988</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-db/mysql" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">5.0.44-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">5.0.44-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Joe Gallo and Artem Russakovskii reported an error in the
+ convert_search_mode_to_innobase() function in ha_innodb.cc in the
+ InnoDB engine that is leading to a failed assertion when handling
+ CONTAINS operations.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote authenticated attacker with ALTER privileges could send a
+ specially crafted request to a vulnerable database server possibly
+ leading to a Denial of Service.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All MySQL users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-db/mysql-5.0.44-r2"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5925">CVE-2007-5925</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-11-18T14:18:51Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-11-18T20:09:52Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-11-18T20:10:13Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>